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JOSE-PH P. BALL, OF LEBANON, INDIANA Letters Patent No. 79,098, dated June 23, 1868.

IMPROVED MEDICINE FOR HOG-GHOLERA.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be'it known that I, JOSEPH P. BALL, of the town of Lebanon, in the county of Boone, and State of Indiana,

have invented and'discovered a new and improved Medicine for -the Prevention and Cure of Hog-Cholera; and

I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accom anying words and figures, and name and description of the materials and substances, and their proportions, in said medicine. i

The nature of my invention consists of the new compound, and the proper proportions of the materials and substances hereinafter named, and the quantity to be administered, to efi'ect a prevention' or cure of said disease.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and properly use and administer the medicine by me invented, I will proceed to describe the materials and substances, and the proper proportionate parts thereof, and how thesame are compounded, mixed, and prepared, and administered to prevent the disease of hog-cholera, and to sheet a cure thereof.

The materials and substances, of the proportionate parts of each of which I prepare said medicine, are the foilowin'g-named, to .wit: Rosin, saltpetre, sulphur, ginger, bayberry, cayenne pepper, galls, flax-seed, gentian', cream of tartar, and anise-seed, being eleven .substanccs, found in Materta ZiIedz'ca; and the method of comounding the proportionate parts used,:and the manner ofusing'and' administeriiig the same, are herewith given, and what quantity shall be administered to prevent or to effect a cure of said disease of hog-cholera.

The materials of which the aforesaid medicine is composed, and the proportionate parts of each, are as follows, namely:

Rosin, ten pounds.

Sulphur, ten pounds.

Saltpetre, ten pounds.

Ginger, ten pounds.

Bayberry, four pounds.

African cayenne, four pounds.

Galls, one pound.

Flax-seed, ten pounds.

Gentian, ten pounds.

Cream tartar, ten pounds.

Anise-seed, one pound.

The above are proper proportions of each material. For making a greatero'r'a less quantity of the medicine, use the same proportionate parts, all of which should be pulverized, and thoroughly mixed together before used; the same to be given to hogs in the following proportions and manner, say, from a half to a table-v spoonful to each, every three hours, in bran-mash, or any other feed; and for prevention of the disease, onequarter of a pound to half a barrel of swill, or other fecdf What I claimas my invention and discovery, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved and newly-discovered medicine, for the cure and prevention of hog-cholera, compounded and prepared of the materials and substances in the manner and proportions, and administered as herein set forth.

JOSEPH P. BALL.

Witnesses:

Joruv H. Hunnnroxs, Emmy VANNIB. 

